Kaspersky by AOL discontinued

AOL recently announced that they switched from Kaspersky to
McAfee as their free anti-virus. This raised two problems :

first, Kaspersky wants you to re-enter your activation code
once a year !!! I hope you kept it !

second, AOL discontinued auto-updates from their ftp site...

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from this post at 14:30+0200 on Kaspersky Labs' request. I replied the
following :

1. if I were you, I would seriously reconsider this decision because
people who got Kaspersky through AOL are _all_ going to uninstall
your product. They got it for free anyway, and you were paid by AOL
for that anyway. This set of "free customers" is excellent in terms
of PR and buzz. Furthermore, people who got your product through AOL
got no direct notification of any sort from AOL neither from
Kaspersky. It means that they started discovering their antivirus
does not work for a strange reason (cannot download a file error
&x000008C or something) and they understand NOTHING about it. They're
probably worried, and UPSET. That's bad for Kaspersky.
What you probably want is to show how good at detecting viruses your
technology is, not really how painful it is for YOUR customers
because AOL dropped a contract with you...

At 16:24+0200, Kaspersky Labs mailed me back : "please
put the page back again. AOL users should be able to update."...
Mucho kudos to Kaspersky Labs !

At his point, you probably consider Kaspersky takes room for
nothing on your hard-disk and are ready to uninstall it. DON'T
DO IT !!! Just do the following to get your updates back
:

shutdown Kaspersky ActiveVirusShield. Closing the main
window is not enough, please click on the systray icon and exit.

locate the XML file listing the update servers. It's
usually located in directory C:\Documents and Settings\All
Users\Application Data\AOL\AVP6\Data and the name of the
file is aol-updcfg.xml